Harvard defends the belt, 7–0, at home over Michigan.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Harvard came in 728 days into reign #33, which began with a win over Princeton, with 17 defenses already behind it; this was its 18th defense. Harvard went on to defend it 7 more times before Cornell took it on October 23, 1915, 1,085 days after the reign began.
For Michigan this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Harvard and Michigan have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Harvard defended the College Football Belt on October 31, 1914, defeating visiting Michigan 7-0 to retain the title.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 8593) · This game in the downloadable dataset